Richard Crowley wrote:

Anyone who has tried cooking something thick in a microwave
oven knows that it doesn't violate the laws of physics. It cooks
from the surface to the inside. Otherwise we couldn't enjoy
such delicacies as "Baked Alaska".

I've always done Baked Alaska in a gas-fired oven! Can you really do it
in the microwave? Now that you mention it, I would think the skin effect
would actually make it easier to do than the oven. Does it brown as nicely,
though?
--scott

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